Apple has responded to the recent patent threats again iOS application developers by Lodsys. Bruce Sewell, Apple's senior vice president and general counsel, sent a letter to Lodsys CEO Mark Small detailing why the threats are baseless. Apple claims they have a license to the patents in question, and that the iOS application developers are mere customers - not distributors.

Actually, it's more like they patented a significant part of the casing, but although this patent makes me laugh to no end, I have to admit that it's not a pure "rounded corner" patent. The patent also includes things like a description of the holding springs and detailed steps of the manufacturing process, so it's not something ridiculously obvious, imprecise, and impossible to avoid.